When the sun disappeared, mankind was condemned to live underground, their hopes for the future lost with the sun behind the horizon. But it was not only freedom that people lost. The aliens extracted the mystery hidden within human beings. But what was hidden behind the message of the Earth being submerged in Jupiter's gaseous atmosphere?

An alien invasion comes to one man’s doorstep in the form of a story-creature, followed by death and rebirth in a transformed Earth, in this Tor.com Original science fiction tale from Jeff VanderMeer, the New York Times bestselling author of the Southern Reach trilogy.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Sequel to the Windrose series. The Personal Paradise Secure Community Corporation specializes in producing tiny enclave universes as vacation homes for the rich and famous. Unfortunately, something goes wrong with their Void technology and all these enclaves - and everyone in them - lose touch with the corporation's central control. Exiled wizard Antryg Windrose and his partner, computer programmer Joanna Sheraton, are hired to find out what the problem is, and to bring the enclaves back, ...

Sequel to Hambly's Windrose series. A transport corporation in another dimension has run a trans-dimensional transport corridor through Los Angeles, and is powering it by draining the psychic energy of the population in its path, driving large numbers of people temporarily insane. Exiled wizard Antryg Windrose and his partner, computer programmer Joanna Sheraton, attempt to put a stop to this by hacking into the corridor itself with a combination of computer technology and magic, assisted ...

The second volume in the ground-breaking, genre-bending, boundary-pushing CLOCKWORK PHOENIX anthology series, available at last in digital format."Allen finds his groove for this second annual anthology of weird stories, selecting 16 wonderfully evocative, well-written tales. ... Each story fits neatly alongside the next, and the diversity of topics, perspectives and authors makes this cosmopolitan anthology a winner."— Publishers WeeklyIncludes critically-acclaimed ...

From the pages of the internationally bestselling Demon Cycle series comes this tale of Arlen Bales, who would one day become the legendary Warded Man.Arlen works as a Messenger, traveling the demon-infested nights to deliver news, letters and packages to isolated villages and towns.But he is hunted.A one-armed rock demon, fifteen feet tall and nearly indestructible, pursues Arlen each night, seeking vengeance for its lost arm.Somewhere out there, in ...

She came to record history. She's about to make some history of her own.The exciting Young Adult adventure continues in this sequel to A Dark Discovery...17-year-old Aerlys thought her last mission was tough. Now the galaxy's youngest Archivist has discovered a thriving lost human colony—and the monsters planning to harvest them!With her shape-shifting artificial companion Shift, Aerlys must rally a primitive society to fac...

The stunning, new collection from the Ugandan master of Africanfuturism.A young teen, haunted by the ghost of his father, takes it upon himself to save his brother and his people from a warlord's marauding army. A frustrated detective is driven to the brink, confronting the vengeful spirit killing grooms on their wedding night. What happens when British colonials find Martians in Africa, a brash warrior battles his elders and ancient horrors in order to secure para...

Strange gods were worshiped on Mars. But were they so clever? They’d lost their own world.“The ancient gods, our Fathers, rode down from the heavens in the Firebirds of the Sun. Coming into the world, they found no air for the breath of their souls. “How shall we breathe?” they asked of the Sun. And Sun gave them of His fire and beneath the earth they kindled the Blaze of the Great Wind. Good air roared from the womb of Mars our Mother, the ice burned with a great t...

The first prequel to Shawn James' Isis, details the history of Bolan and Katia, two kingdoms established before Egypt. In this story we learn how MastiKatious rose to power establishing Katia, "Land of the Underground Sun" and how he ruled for thousands of years with his "Gem of Omnipotence". Once considered the greatest nation in the world, a land of "milk and honey," learn why Katia rose and fell as a piece of unrecorded history is revealed for the first time.

Would you sacrifice your humanity to save the world?Kirmen is different from the other inhabitants of the Cloister, whose walls protect them all from the endless storm ravaging Earth. As a result of the Doctor's cruel experiments, his physical form is gradually evolving into something better fit for survival in the world outside.Kirmen worries about becoming a pariah, an outcast among the other denizens of the domes. But his desire for affection and accepta...

Haatha Chaas'-Eighth is an Mmsar poet, content to live alone though his brothers all have families of their own and think he should have apprentices, too.Unfortunately, someone left a clutch of eggs in Haatha's back yard, and now he's got to deal with hatchling Mmsar, which are no better than vermin at that age. But one hatchling, despite its lack of sapience, has an intriguing cunning -- and a bad attitude.("Snips and Snails" is approximately 6,500 words long, and contains...